Making community college free is crucial next step for Mass.
TWO CENTURES AGO, Massachusetts became home to the nation’s first public high school. Over the next 100 years, other states followed suit, making high school universal and compulsory in response…
Georgia elections chief allows state Court of Appeals candidate to survive residency challenge
The Nathan Deal Judicial Center is home to the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger issued a decision Thursday in favor…
Drew Lalumiere
Born Feb. 8, 1989 Middlebury, Vermont Died May 9, 2024 South Hero, Vermont Details of services A celebration of life open to all friends, family, and loved ones, will be…
U.S. House rebukes Biden administration over pause in heavy bomb shipments to Israel
A bill passed Thursday, May 16, 2024 by the U.S. House says military assistance withheld from Israel “shall be delivered to Israel not later than 15 days after” the bill…
Gold bars in baggies and cash crammed in boots: Prosecutors detail Menendez’s hoarded riches
A federal prosecutor Thursday spent several hours chronicling the cash, gold, and other items FBI agents found during a June 16, 2022, search of Sen. Bob Menendez’s Englewood Cliffs home.…
With GOP opposed, U.S. Senate panel advances bills to combat AI in elections
Over the last year or more, several states have passed legislation restricting the use of AI in political ads or requiring that it be disclosed. (Photo via Getty Images) Members…
U.S. House rebukes Biden administration over pause in heavy bomb shipments to Israel
A bill passed Thursday, May 16, 2024 by the U.S. House says military assistance withheld from Israel “shall be delivered to Israel not later than 15 days after” the bill…
Brown v. Board litigants, family mark anniversary as Biden decries ongoing school inequality
Plaintiffs and family members of plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court case, Cheryl Brown Henderson, second from right, John Stokes, second from left, and Nathaniel…
Louisiana home care companies cheated workers out of $422,000 in wages, feds say
Five home health care companies in Louisiana that reportedly cheated their employees out of nearly a half-million dollars in wages. (Photo credit: Wes Muller/Louisiana Illuminator) Federal labor officials successfully prosecuted…
Postal Service pauses plans to move processing centers, including Missoula’s
Stacks of boxes holding cards and letters are seen at the U.S. Post Office sort center December 15, 2008 in San Francisco, California. On its busiest day of the year,…